โ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆโ is something I hear all the time, often attributed as the reason many people have been led to believe for their pain.โฃ
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๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ป๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ and Iโve been thinking a lot lately about where the notion of โgood postureโ comes from. In my personal experience, it all dates back to childhood ballet classes where we were taught to ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ, to hold our shoulders back and head tall (oh, and ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ต๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐บ! โ more on that to come in future posts).โฃ
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๐ Although dance and sport have their own forms of posture training, the history of posture dates even further back to the development of military drill formation in the 16-17th centuries and carried forward to the social morality and medicalization of primitive posture which was used to separate 'primitive' from 'advanced' peoples and the 'ill' from the 'healthy.โฃ
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Posture eventually became the focus of early physiotherapy and chiropractic with many traditional osteopathic texts also making reference to the requirement for the body to be in โgood alignmentโ in order for the bodyโs structures to function optimally.โฃ
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The history of posture is an interesting one and what many might find to be disturbing (read: patriarchal and racist) practices.โฃ See my Instagram post below for more on the history of posture.
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